Velatir secures €5M seed funding to expand its AI infrastructure across Europe

Danish AI startup Velatir has raised €5 million in new funding to expand its AI infrastructure platform across Europe and grow its team. The round was co-led by new investor Spintop Ventures and existing investor Ugly Duckling Ventures, with participation from Norrsken Evolve and angel investors Jan Oberhauser (n8n) and Thomas Visti (Universal Robots and MiR). The Danish Export and Investment Fund (EIFO) also participated through a matching loan. The financing comes six months after Velatir raised its pre-seed round and follows the company's commercial launch.

Founded by Michael Sørensen, Elias Sørensen, Christian Møller and Andreas Paulli, Velatir is developing an infrastructure layer designed to help companies manage the growing use of AI across their organisations. The platform provides visibility and controls across AI tools, employees, agents, vendors, devices and the underlying infrastructure.

Velatir is addressing the security and compliance challenges that can emerge as businesses adopt more AI tools and autonomous agents. As AI becomes embedded across company systems and workflows, organisations need to track how these technologies are being used, where data is flowing and whether their use complies with internal policies and regulatory requirements.

The platform brings together AI security, policy enforcement, usage monitoring and discovery in one system. It provides real-time visibility into AI activity across devices, browsers, employees and agents, including data flows, costs and the maturity of individual use cases. Companies can also establish centralised guardrails across systems and access a catalogue of more than 4,000 AI tools.

Velatir has built its platform entirely on European-owned and hosted infrastructure, opting not to use US hyperscalers. The company positions this approach around data sovereignty, resilience and control as European businesses increasingly consider where their AI infrastructure and data are hosted.

Sovereign cloud is a common phrase, and it often means American platforms with a European label. We built Velatir on European-owned and hosted infrastructure from the very beginning. It is the harder path, but the only viable one for us,

said Christian Møller, COO and co-founder of Velatir.

The new funding will be used to accelerate Velatir's expansion across Europe and recruit additional talent as it scales to meet growing customer demand.